[BusyBox] off topic: 'device table support' for mkcramfs?

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri May 03, 2002 at 11:22:29PM +0200, Jonas Holmberg wrote:
> OK, I see now that they work about the same way. And I guess
> that our install could be changed to handle one central
> device_table file instead of one metafile per dir also. But the
> ability to ignore files comes in handy, at least for us as we
> install tons of libs in /lib (sometimes we use glibc...) and
> decide which should actually go in the final image after all
> applications have been installed.

I see.  What I do is install all libraries and include files
and such into a separate staging directory, and I then cherry
pick the required libraries and install them from the staging 
dir to the target directory.  That way, it isn't mkfs's problem,

 -Erik

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